moving photos from Gallery2 to Flickr

From about 2003 until today, I kept my photos in a variety of places.
Most of my photos were on my old website’s photo gallery which ran the
excellent Gallery2 software. For a number
of reasons, I decided to move all my photos to my Flickr
account. (I wanted to make
use of the community features on flickr, I was failing to keep my
Gallery2 install updated and my Android phone makes it really easy to
upload photos direct to Flickr). Moving the photos is pretty easy using
the Gallery2Flickr plug-in for
Gallery2. Transferring photos mostly went smoothly but occasionally it
failed with the following error:

Catchable fatal error:
Object of class GalleryStatus could not be converted to string in modules/Gallery2Flickr/classes/phpFlickr/phpFlickr.php on line 214

After some tinkering, this was fixed by setting the parameter

$storeConfig['type']='mysql';

in config.php (it was set as 'mysqli'). This is
a bit of a dirty hack but it works.

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